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Patented Feb 1,1887.

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GUMMED SHEET OR WEB. No. 357,081:

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P. GODFREY. V GUMMEDSHBET ORWEB. No. 3-57081 Patented Feb. 1, 1887.

.im rnblu a, Jmmonia, 117277201224 .imrnonz'd. flmnti citizen of .the United States, residing at Grand ence being had therein to the accompanying greatfacility in for terial having its front colored as desired, or which may ca chinefor not only'gumniing a web of material,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' FREEMAN GODFR Y," on eRXnnnAPins, MieHienn.

GUMME'D SHEETQR WEB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Le Applirationfiled annnry 4, 18815.

T 0 all whom finitely-concern. Be it known thatI, FREEMAN GODFREY, a

Rapids, in the county of- Kent, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and usefullm provernents in Gummed Sheets or Webs, of which the following is ti-specification, referdrawings.

My invention relates to a prepared sheet, web, or strip of any suitable material so coated with gum, mucilage, or dextrine on itsone side and having suitablelabels or samples printed or formed in any suitable manner on its re-. verse side thatit maybe used rapidly and with mingsample-slips or printed to be afterward stuck upon or in anydesired position. invention consists of a sheet, paper or other suitable inalabels, which are a prepared base, In general, my

web, or strip of rry on its front face a series of printed labels arraugedin columns and divided by proper spaces, sample-colors, or designs for wallpaper, or of an ornamental nature generally, the back of such sheet or web being gummed-with some adhesive composition, such as mueilage or dextrine, except where longitudinal and transverse spaces are left unguinme'd, as full y hereinafter described.

In an application for Letters Patent filed March 27, 1885, I described an organized mabut for separating itinto its proper divisions and sticking such divisions successively and in regular order upon a prepared base; andit will be understood that the prepared sheet, web, or strip which I am now describing is produced by such a machine, and that it may, by means of such machine, be cut into its proper divisions, which may be, if desired, applied separately by hand to the base. For instance, a prepared sheet of library-numbers could be gummed in the machine, and at any time desired cut from the sheet and then placed by hand on separate books.

sheet, ings, i

I is believed, need not be Patent, is

prepared on its front gummed on its'back i longitudinal and transverse substantially'as set forth.

presence of two witnesses.

'ersPatent No. 3553081, dated l'ebruary 1. 1887 semi No. 187,575. (No model.)

p I have represented my prepared gummed strip, or web in the accompanying draw- 11 whichr-e Figure l isapla'n view showingthe gummed side of a large sheet; Fig. 2, a similar view of a strip or web for sample-colors. Fig.

3 is aplan view of the reverse side of the strip, showing how sample-colors may be formed. Fig. his a-similar view illustrating a series of labels ready for separation. Fig. 5 isa similar view having a design for wallpaper formed upon the. strip.

On the back of the sheet A is a series of gummed divisions, B, separated by longitudinal and transverse nngummed spaces 0, on the reverse side provided with printed labels, samples of wallpaper, or colors .0.

It will be understood that where sheets with the prepared front are used the gummed spaces on the back coincide with the printed or other divisions of the front and the ungummed spaces with the blank spaces on the front. When prepared in this manner,the gum may be allowed to dry and the sheet kept until it is to be u'sed;when it may be cut, either by the machine or by hand, and then applied, as desired, to the base.

The convenience and vantages of my inventio utility and other ads n are obvious, and, it enlarged upon here.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters A sheet, strip, or web of paper colored or 8c side, asdescribed, and n blocks separated by ungummedspaces,

In testimony whereof I affiirmy signature in 8 5 FREEMAN GODFREY.

Witnesses:

EDWIN HOYT, J r., W. H. FowLn. 

